I'm in Junkyard Heaven Thanks to car-part.com

My computer's web browser has a button in the bookmark bar that lets me see which sites I visit most. I was surprised recently when I saw car-part.com in the top ten. car-part.com is a search engine website for finding used auto parts from wrecking yards. I really like this website because it lets me search hundreds (maybe thousands) of yards all over North America for parts from a staggering list of car and truck makes and models.

Need a flywheel for your old Toyota 4x4 with the 22R fourbanger? No problem. Need a set of factory aluminum wheels for your Mercedes Benz 190E 2.3? Not to worry, car-part,com has pictures of all the choices to help you make the right selection.

Not only do you have access to tons of parts for sale, you have access to information about what fits with what. It's not a perfect interchange guide but you can usually tell if a part fits in several different models by seeing what the sources are for the parts being offered. I find it to be a treasure of information that helps me to be a better gearhead.

Prices and part grades are listed too, so you can get an idea of what the range of prices is and have some way to tell good parts from the real junk. This has helped me to get a good part at a good price on several occasions.

When I was kid, big store chains like Sears used to put out Christmas catalogs for children, I used to spend hundreds of hours figuring just exactly what I wanted from Santa. I'd weigh all the details and go to sleep at night dreaming of the cool things I imagined I might get. I feel the same way about car-part.com. If I had a magic credit card that only worked on car-part.com I'd be buying parts and building cars and 4x4s from parts for the rest of my life.